Arun Joshi’s Fiction: Self in Exile

The book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Arun Joshi’s novels and short stories.  The central focus of Arun Joshi’s fiction is in the ‘self’ irretrievably lost in the labyrinth of industrialized and dehumanized society.  The protagonist of Arun Joshi feels helpless, isolated and dispossessed.  In all five chapters off the book, the major concerns of Arun Joshi viz., existential predicament, alienation, dispossession, rootlessness, angst, loneliness and facelessness have been discussed.  These concerns are contextualized with textual and authentic secondary source evidence.  In terms of India socio-culturral situations.  The book, it is hoped, will be appreciated by students, researchers and scholars alike. It would also be a valuable addition to the analytical and interpretative works on Arun Joshi.